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The Eller MBA Curriculum : First-Year Curriculum
"We’ll use the skills we have learned in our communications class for the rest of our lives. Who doesn’t want to possess superb presentation skills, confidence, and articulation?"
— Gabriela Head, MBA '07
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As an Eller MBA, you will experience an MBA curriculum that operates at the intersection of intellectual rigor and market relevance. In addition to a thorough and comprehensive first year core experience — aimed at strengthening your analytical skills and preparing you for your internship search — you will have ample opportunity to take your skills to the market as part of your educational experience. You will substantively engage with public or private enterprises as an analyst or consultant and you will analyze a publicly traded entity and present the findings to faculty and businesspeople acting as Wall Street analysts all during your first year of study.
Overview
Set in a two-year format with intensive 7-week and 14-week courses during the first year, the Eller MBA curriculum includes a portfolio of interesting and market-centered learning modules, highly tailored elective courses, international and project-based experiences with leadership development activities embedded throughout the curriculum.
Core Courses
During your first year, you will be immersed in a core set of rigorous and analytically-oriented business topics including finance, accounting, marketing, economics, operations, management, leadership, and business communications. You will master these fundamentals for success in both individual and team-based settings.
These core courses, augmented by experiential learning, managerial and business communications capabilities and professional development activities, are designed to ensure a comprehensive foundation that will prepare you to take full advantage of the academic and professional opportunities and choices you’ll face during the second year of the program.
Fall Semester
Pre-Session: Offered one week prior to start of Fall Semester
MGMT 566: Leadership and Teams (2 units)
Conceptual understanding of advanced, applied, inferential statistics with emphasis on their use as a managerial decision-making tool.
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MGMT 562: Applied Business Statistics (2 units)
Conceptual understanding of advanced, applied, inferential statistics with emphasis on their use as a managerial decision-making tool. |
ECON 550: Economics for Managers (2 units)
Examination of industrial structure theory of prices under varying market conditions with application to business problems with emphasis on building and sustaining competitive advantage. |
FIN 510A: Finance (2 units)
Integration of basic principles and underlying theory of finance, with emphasis on the analytical financial management of firms. |
ACCT 540: Introduction to Financial Accounting (2 units)
Principles and procedures underlying the financial accounting process and their application in the preparation and analysis of financial statements. |
MKTG 510: Market-Based Management (2 units)
Exploration of the environment, scope and nature of marketing management with focus on market analysis for product, price, promotion, distribution and service. |
MAP 510: Communication for Managers and Professional Development (3 units)
This course will provide students will communication strategies and skills to manage and lead in the complex and rapidly changing global business environment.
Initial introduction to functional and industry opportunities; mentoring and networking; consideration of experiential learning opportunities. This course also provides additional opportunities to strengthen and measure core professional communication competencies. |
Spring Semester
ACCT 545: Introduction to Managerial Accounting (2 units)
This course presents an overview of managerial accounting concepts, focusing on providing and evaluating accounting information for decision making, planning and control of operations and organizations, and strategic management. |
MIS 560: Operations Management (2 units)
This course takes a process-oriented approach, covering four segments: operations strategy, management of process flows, variability, and operations improvement. |
FIN 510B : Finance (2 units)
Continuation of the integration of basic principles and underlying theory of finance, with emphasis on the analytical financial management of firms. |
ECON 551: Business Strategy (2 units)
This course is concerned with the long-term strategy of a business organization, identifying and analyzing past and current strategies and discusses formulating and implementing new ones. |
BNAD 597A: Business Field Projects (3 units)
Small teams of students work in consultation with a faculty member to finalize scope, plan, and execute a project for an organization to deliver value to them. |
BNAD 597C: Communication for Consultants (3 units) Specialized communication styles and strategies for team and consulting environment. Builds upon skills acquired in MGMT 510 in the Fall Semester. |
MIS 585: Strategic Management of Information Systems (2 units)
The objective of this course is to define how a business manager can work with an IS professional to articulate the value of an IT solution (project). |
Winter Break
BNAD 596C -- Global Business Experience (2 Units) An eight-day international trip, titled “Global Business Perspectives.” As part of this course, students would spend an 8-hour day of class contact prior to the trip to set the stage for the specific region and to analyze international business issues. Students would then depart for a nine- to 10-day trip to a particular region (Asia, Latin America, SE Asia, etc.), engaged in extensive interactions with business, government, and other organizations.
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